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Adventure Cycling leader Jim Sayer challenged a roomful of members and other cyclists last night to join the push for Congress to make bicycling and walking a higher priority in the next national transportation bill. While his group and others are busy in Washington, he said it's local groups such as Green Mobility Network and the Florida Bicycle Association that are best able to awaken members of the House and Senate.

Thanks also to all who backed and encouraged our work through the past year. It's not too late to join or donate to carry our work strongly into 2010. See the yellow buttons elsewhere on this page. We wish you good rides, good health and ever-better streets and trails for South Florida.

It required just four city parking spaces to hold 50 bicycles when a crew of Green Mobility folk looked after movie-goers' bikes Saturday during the Bicycle Film Festival in Miami Beach. Thanks to the city Parking Department for making the lot space available.

A small but lively group of Upper Eastsiders turned out last night to hear Florida Department of Transportation plans for improved walker safety on Biscayne Boulevard between Morningside and NE 77th Street.

You like bicycle films? You'll love the Bicycle Film Festival tomorrow, Dec. 12, at the Colony Theatre, on Lincoln Road Mall at Lennox Avenue. The fun actually begins tonight 7 p.m. at Keirin Cycles, 235A 9th St., Miami Beach.

Major streets in South Florida and much of the rest of the country appear to have been designed with the needs of walkers as a second thought at best. National Public Radio reports on the efforts of Transportation for America to move city and state planners toward the concept of complete streets -- streets for all the people.

To help Green Mobility's board plan for 2010, we're taking a survey of our members and friends. If you didn't already fill out a survey from your e-mail inbox, you are invited to do so right here. Click here to take survey

Florida’s four largest urban areas are among the country’s most dangerous for walkers, transportation policy advocates noted Monday in releasing a study that associates street and road design with high numbers of injuries and deaths. In large and small cities throughout Florida, it’s common to find streets designed primarily to move cars swiftly

If you bike to the Miami Book Fair International this year, you'll get a $3 discount on your book fair admission. Just pick up your discount coupon Nov. 14 or 15 at the bike valet that Green Mobility Network will be operating on NE 2nd Avenue just south of 3rd Street. Other book fair events start as early as Nov. 8.

There's a new "honor box" at Bill Baggs State Park, following Green Mobility Network's call about how awkward it was for cyclists to dodge motor traffic to pay entrance fees. Here's park manager Robert Yero's follow-up note: